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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her anger at Bao-yu, what does Dai-yu cut up?
(a) Bao-yu's best clothes.
(b) The purse she gave to Bao-yu.
(c) A sachet she has been making for Bao-yu.
(d) Her best clothes.

2. Why is Aroma upset with Bao-yu in Chapter 21?
(a) He is not paying attention to his studies.
(b) He is spending too much time with girls.
(c) He continues to eat the tree bark.
(d) He is ignoring her.

3. Who scolds Aroma for not getting up when she enters a room?
(a) Yu-chun.
(b) Dai-yu.
(c) Nannie Li.
(d) Bao-chai.

4. What does Jia-lian use as his bedroom while his daughter is ill?
(a) Outer study.
(b) Aroma's room.
(c) The living room.
(d) The Mattresses' room.

5. What addiction does Dai-yu discover of Bao-yu's?
(a) Food.
(b) Sex.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) A novel.

6. What does Bao-yu call for an end for in his altered poem?
(a) Cheating women.
(b) Jealous boyfriends.
(c) Bureaucracy.
(d) Feminine nagging and jealousy.

7. Who are the invitees to Bao-yu's birthday party?
(a) Friends and family only.
(b) Boa-yu's cousins only.
(c) Family members only.
(d) Servants, friends and family only.

8. What do Bao-yu's pages take from him after the naming party for the garden for Yuan-chun?
(a) The purse given to him Dai-yu.
(b) All of his wine.
(c) All of his trinkets.
(d) His magical jade.

9. Which of the following does NOT happen in the wake of Qin-shi's death?
(a) Xi-feng sees a demon.
(b) Bao-yu vomits blood.
(c) A maid offers to carry out the mourning responsibilities of a daughter.
(d) A maid kills herself.

10. What causes Qin Zhong's father to die?
(a) The stress of finding out about Qin Zhong's love affair with Sappy.
(b) The stress of Bao-yu's consistent misbehaving.
(c) His sadness over Qin-shi's death.
(d) His guilt about a huge debt.

11. What did Bao-yu not allow to be taken from him by his pages?
(a) A rabbit foot pendant.
(b) The sachet given to him by Dai-yu.
(c) The purse given to him by Dai-yu.
(d) His schoolbooks.

12. What gift does Shui Rong give to Bao-yu?
(a) A ring.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A rosary.
(d) A tunic.

13. What is purchased for Yuan-chun's first visit to her garden?
(a) A writer to make an address to mark the occasion.
(b) Twelve child actresses and twenty-four nuns.
(c) Twenty-four child actresses and twelve nuns.
(d) A priest to bless the garden.

14. What is Shui Rong's title?
(a) The Prince of Bei-jing.
(b) The Prince of Shanghai.
(c) The King of Bei-jing.
(d) The head of the Rong mansion.

15. Who scolds the maids for their mess?
(a) Nannie Li.
(b) Xi-feng.
(c) Dai-yu.
(d) Yuan-chun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Xi-feng's personality as an overbearing mistress come to light in the Ning house?

2. As Bao-yu, Xi-feng, and Qin Zhong talk during Chapter 14, what do they learn has happened?

3. Who helps Bao-yu with writing poems for Yuan-chun?

4. What is most important about The Temple of the Iron Threshold in relation to Qin-shi?

5. What does Yuan-chun remind the family of as she departs from the garden?

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